View Full Version : Pay-per-minute cafe opens
Jimbuna
01-15-14, 01:09 PM
I like this idea, must have a look at the food menu if I ever come across such an establishment because I could eat an awful lot of food in an hour :)
Walk past many cafes during the daytime and you'll see people sitting inside, nursing a coffee as they work away at their laptops. If you're spending all day buying one expensive coffee after another, though, the costs can really add up.
But for those who work outside of the traditional office environment, there is a potential new alternative - pay-per-minute cafes.
Ziferblat is a concept that has already proved popular in Russia - and now the chain has opened its first cafe in London's Old Street.
The founders say that "everything is free, except the time you spend there". Customers pay 3p per minute - or £1.80 an hour - for unlimited food, coffee and access to wi-fi. You can even bring your own food or drink.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25733143
Tango589
01-15-14, 01:14 PM
*waistline expanding visibly*
Wolferz
01-15-14, 01:33 PM
I can hear you gents becoming obese.:rock:
Not you, Jim unless they serve a good Vindaloo.:03::O:
Schroeder
01-15-14, 01:43 PM
I can hear you gents becoming obese.:rock:
Not you, Jim because you already are:03::O:
Fixed that for you.:smug:
:O:
Wolferz
01-15-14, 01:51 PM
Fixed that for you.:smug:
:O:
Not Jim...:D
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/th-2.jpg
Jimbuna
01-15-14, 02:01 PM
Fixed that for you.:smug:
:O:
http://imageshack.com/a/img560/3871/so7.gif (https://imageshack.com/i/fkso7g)
Wolferz
01-15-14, 03:09 PM
http://imageshack.com/a/img560/3871/so7.gif (https://imageshack.com/i/fkso7g)
You're hitting him, aren't you?:huh:
Carry on.:up:
Jimbuna
01-15-14, 03:18 PM
You're hitting him, aren't you?:huh:
Carry on.:up:
http://imageshack.com/a/img593/8853/zhg.gif (https://imageshack.com/i/ghzhgg)
nikimcbee
01-15-14, 06:25 PM
This made our news here, not Jim, the café.
Penguin
01-16-14, 07:16 AM
3 pence per minute, that's about 1300 pounds a month. Regarding London's prices it might be cheaper living in the cafe than renting an apartment :hmmm: - and the food and beverages are already included.
Jimbuna
01-16-14, 08:09 AM
3 pence per minute, that's about 1300 pounds a month. Regarding London's prices it might be cheaper living in the cafe than renting an apartment :hmmm: - and the food and beverages are already included.
Too right :yep:
Jimbuna "I'll have an hours worth of cheeseburgers please"
Waitress "How many is that?"
Jimbuna "Not really sure so keep serving em up and we'll both know in an hours time"
Wolferz
01-16-14, 08:58 AM
Cheeburger Cheeburger Cheeburger.
No Coke. Pepsi. We switched.
It won't be long before you're smorgasbored.:O:
Platapus
01-16-14, 05:57 PM
Gosh, offering WiFi access at that low a price... and "free" food too. I wonder how they will recoup their expenses.... if they are not selling food, what else could they sell while people are hooked up to their network?....:hmmm:
They must be a bunch of nice guys.
Jimbuna
01-17-14, 06:15 AM
Gosh, offering WiFi access at that low a price... and "free" food too. I wonder how they will recoup their expenses.... if they are not selling food, what else could they sell while people are hooked up to their network?....:hmmm:
They must be a bunch of nice guys.
Too good to believe it's true :)
antikristuseke
01-17-14, 08:14 AM
I can hear you gents becoming obese.:rock:
Not you, Jim because you already are.:03::O:
Fixed that for you.:smug:
:O:
Stop making fun of Jim, he is in shape, round is a shape :D
Better get the bankrupt papers out and processed.
Jimbuna
01-18-14, 01:29 PM
Better get the bankrupt papers out and processed.
Let me finish my cheeseburgers first :)
Wolferz
01-21-14, 03:33 PM
Let me finish my cheeseburgers first :)
This is the moment they sic the little Chinese grandma on you...
You been here too long! You go away now! Take cot with you!
soopaman2
01-21-14, 11:38 PM
I would hate to have to clean the undersides of the table in any internet cafe, considering the lonely black rimmed glasses wearing hipsters that frequent such places. Typically lonely, or melancholy to the point of coolness.
I came up with a slogan.
The more you pay, the more you spray. 5 dollar coffee, no fiddling all day.
Pay me some cash, I won't tell anyone you are looking at Hentai.:D
Free napkins at the counter.
I was born to operate one of these places.
Wolferz
01-22-14, 12:47 PM
Ground floor opportunities available, Soop.:up:
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